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Siege vs Segment - What's the difference?

siege | segment |

As nouns the difference between siege and segment

is that siege is A seat.segment is a length of some object.

As verbs the difference between siege and segment

is that siege is to assault a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition; to besiege while segment is to divide into segments or sections.

siege

English

(wikipedia siege)

Alternative forms

* syege

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A seat.
  • #(label) A seat, especially as used by someone of importance or authority.
  • #*.
  • #*:Now Merlyn said kyng Arthur / goo thow and aspye me in al this land l knyghtes whiche ben of most prowesse & worship / within short tyme merlyn had founde suche kny?tesThenne the Bisshop of Caunterbury was fette and he blessid the syeges' with grete Royalte and deuoycyon / and there sette the viij and xx knyghtes in her ' syeges
  • #*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , II.vii:
  • #*:To th'vpper part, where was aduaunced hye / A stately siege of soueraigne maiestye; / And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay.
  • #(label) An ecclesiastical see.
  • #(label) The place where one has his seat; a home, residence, domain, empire.
  • #The seat of a heron while looking out for prey; a flock of heron.
  • #(label) A privy or lavatory.
  • #(label) The anus; the rectum.
  • #*1646 , Sir (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.17:
  • #*:Another ground were certain holes or cavities observable about the siege ; which being perceived in males, made some conceive there might be also a feminine nature in them.
  • #(label) Excrements, stool, fecal matter.
  • #*1610 , (The Tempest) , by (William Shakespeare), act 2 scene 2
  • #*:Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How cam'st thou / to be the siege of this moon-calf? Can he vent Trinculos?
  • #(label) Rank; grade; station; estimation.
  • #*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • #*:I fetch my life and being / From men of royal siege .
  • #(label) The floor of a glass-furnace.
  • #(label) A workman's bench.
  • #:(Knight)
  • (label) Military action.
  • #A prolonged military assault or a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition.
  • #*1748 , (David Hume), Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Section 3 §5:
  • #*:The Peloponnesian war is a proper subject for history, the siege of Athens for an epic poem, and the death of Alcibiades for a tragedy.
  • #(label) A period of struggle or difficulty, especially from illness.
  • #(label) A prolonged assault or attack.
  • #*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 19, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= England 1-0 Ukraine , passage=But once again Hodgson's men found a way to get the result they required and there is a real air of respectability about their campaign even though they had to survive a first-half siege from a Ukraine side desperate for the win they needed to progress.}}

    Derived terms

    *

    Verb

    (sieg)
  • To assault a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition; to besiege.
  • segment

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A length of some object.
  • One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment' of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical ' segment was called a reading stone,
  • (label) A portion.
  • # A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.
  • # (label) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
  • # (label) Any of the pieces that comprise an order tree.
  • (label) A portion.
  • # (label) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
  • # (label) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
  • #*
  • In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.
  • # (label) One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.
  • (label) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 29, author=Nathan Rabin
  • , title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992) , passage=In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character.}}
  • (label) An Ethernet bus.
  • (label) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
  • (label) A portion of an itinerary; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
  • Synonyms

    * (part or section of a whole) (l) * (straight path) line segment * (area of a circle) circular segment

    Derived terms

    * circular segment * image segment * line segment * market segment * memory segment

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To divide into segments or sections.
  • Segment the essay by topic.

    Hyponyms

    *